Don't rush to judgment so quickly, John. It appears that the L.A. Times reporters, in their eagerness to "get" the Bush administration and embarrass the military, omitted a lot of important information from their story. In fact, it's quite possible that the government is no more guilty of wrongdoing here than Foley's is when it buys ads in the Rocky, and that the
breech of ethics that occurred -- if there even was one -- was by the Lincoln Group, a private contractor. We'll see how the facts play out as the investigation continues.
Ed Morrissey offers a more balanced view of what happened at:
Journalists are making fools over this issue, which makes me sad as a veteran journalist.
Ever hear of the Ugly American? That's what American journalists sound like in deploring our military's use of propaganda in a war that is costing American lives and treasure.
Iraq is not America. It doesn't have a First Amendment. It does have insurgents and enemy propagandists to deal with.
Some American journalists seek to self-righteously impose loose American journalistic ethics on a chaotic society and an under-staffed military. Of course, lefty journalists don't understand the war on Islamic terrorism nor do they support the war in Iraq, so their credibility in this debate is zilch.
Like everyone else on the left journalists gleefully attack the military and the president on any pretext. Am I questioning the motives and sincerity of journalist complaining about how the the military is waging its propaganda war? Yes. Why shouldn't I, given the dishonest headlines, carefully chosen anti-war stories and mostly anti-Bush editorials we see in papers these days?
Whats so ironic is that I've read stories saying the ariticles the military planted in Iraqi newspapers actually were run as advertorials and marked as paid advertising. If that's the case, what's the difference between what the military is doing in Iraq and what home builders and other advertisers do when they place advertorials in American newspapers?
As usual, it appears American journalists are telling a fraction of the story and spinning it to reflect their often unpatriotic political biases.
FYI. While I strongly support our war effort, I'm an independent, not a Democrat nor a Republican. And I've been in journalist 41 years.
December 5, 2005
3:20 PM
Donald E. L. Johnson writes:
You need to let people edit their comments after publication.
My first Sentence should read:
Journalists are making fools of themselves over this issue, which makes me sad as a veteran journalist.
December 3, 2005
4:55 PM
Alan Aardvark writes:
Don't rush to judgment so quickly, John. It appears that the L.A. Times reporters, in their eagerness to "get" the Bush administration and embarrass the military, omitted a lot of important information from their story. In fact, it's quite possible that the government is no more guilty of wrongdoing here than Foley's is when it buys ads in the Rocky, and that the
breech of ethics that occurred -- if there even was one -- was by the Lincoln Group, a private contractor. We'll see how the facts play out as the investigation continues.
Ed Morrissey offers a more balanced view of what happened at:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/005880.php
As usual, if you want liberal-agenda reporting, read the L.A. Times or the Rocky. If you want the facts, read the blogs.
December 5, 2005
3:13 PM
Donald E. L. Johnson writes:
Journalists are making fools over this issue, which makes me sad as a veteran journalist.
Ever hear of the Ugly American? That's what American journalists sound like in deploring our military's use of propaganda in a war that is costing American lives and treasure.
Iraq is not America. It doesn't have a First Amendment. It does have insurgents and enemy propagandists to deal with.
Some American journalists seek to self-righteously impose loose American journalistic ethics on a chaotic society and an under-staffed military. Of course, lefty journalists don't understand the war on Islamic terrorism nor do they support the war in Iraq, so their credibility in this debate is zilch.
Like everyone else on the left journalists gleefully attack the military and the president on any pretext. Am I questioning the motives and sincerity of journalist complaining about how the the military is waging its propaganda war? Yes. Why shouldn't I, given the dishonest headlines, carefully chosen anti-war stories and mostly anti-Bush editorials we see in papers these days?
Whats so ironic is that I've read stories saying the ariticles the military planted in Iraqi newspapers actually were run as advertorials and marked as paid advertising. If that's the case, what's the difference between what the military is doing in Iraq and what home builders and other advertisers do when they place advertorials in American newspapers?
As usual, it appears American journalists are telling a fraction of the story and spinning it to reflect their often unpatriotic political biases.
FYI. While I strongly support our war effort, I'm an independent, not a Democrat nor a Republican. And I've been in journalist 41 years.
December 5, 2005
3:20 PM
Donald E. L. Johnson writes:
You need to let people edit their comments after publication.
My first Sentence should read:
Journalists are making fools of themselves over this issue, which makes me sad as a veteran journalist.
In the third graph from the bottom it should be:
What's so ironic....